Jamie Lee Curtis confesses to getting plastic surgery at 25 after cruel comment on Perfect set

Hollywood star Jamie Lee Curtis has revealed the “embarrassing” on-set encounter that prompted her to get plastic surgery at just 25.

Jamie Lee Curtis got plastic surgery after a cinematographer criticised her appearance on the set of her 1985 film Perfect.

“He was like, ‘Yeah, I’m not shooting her today. Her eyes are baggy.’ And I was 25, so for him to say that, it was very embarrassing,” Curtis, 66, shared on US 60 Minutes on Sunday.

“So as soon as the movie finished, I ended up having some plastic surgery.”

Jamie Lee Curtis has revealed the on-set encounter that prompted her to get plastic surgery aged just 25.

While Curtis did not name any names, the late Gordon Willis was the movie’s cinematographer, according to IMDb.

Willis, known for his work on critically acclaimed films like Annie Hall, The Godfather and All The President’s Men, died in 2014 at the age of 82.

The Freaky Friday actress looked back on her cosmetic procedure with regret.

Curtis felt compelled to go under the knife after a cinematographer for her film Perfect criticised her appearance. Picture: Alamy

The actress, seen here in the 1985 film, did not reveal the name of the crew member who said her eyes were “baggy”. Picture: Alamy

John Travolta also starred in Perfect.

“That’s just not what you want to do when you’re 25 or 26. And I regretted it immediately and have kind of sort of regretted it since,” she said.

Curtis is especially ashamed of her decision to go under the knife since becoming a champion for natural beauty in her later years.

Curtis, seen here at the Ocars in 2024, says she has remorse over the procedure. Picture: DAVID SWANSON / AFP

The actress is now a firm advocate for ageing gracefully and naturally. Picture: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images

“I’ve become a really public advocate to say to women, ‘You’re gorgeous’ and ‘You’re perfect the way you are,’” she said.

“So yeah, it was not a good thing for me to do,” Curtis admitted.

The procedure was more than emotionally taxing for the actress: She also developed a reliance on pain medications.

“I became very enamoured with the warm bath of an opiate,” she recalled.

Curtis will star alongside Lindsay Lohan in the Freaky Friday reboot, Freakier Friday. Picture: Glen Wilson/Disney via AP

“You know, drank a little bit … never to excess, never any big public demonstrations. I was very quiet, very private about it, but it became a dependency for sure.”

Curtis has addressed her remorse over getting work done and how it led to an addiction in the past.

“I tried plastic surgery, and it didn’t work. It got me addicted to Vicodin,” Curtis told Fast Company in 2021. “I’m 22 years sober now.”

She added, “The current trend of fillers and procedures, and this obsession with filtering, and the things that we do to adjust our appearance on Zoom are wiping out generations of beauty. Once you mess with your face, you can’t get it back.”

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